You read right. The absolute riskiest food in America to eat is LEAFY GREENS! Yet no one, not even the FDA, is saying that eating leafy greens is “playing Russian Roulette with your health.” No one is pushing for the sale of leafy greens to be illegal. And no one is using your tax dollars to create anti- leafy green vegetable posters.

It’s a double standard.

And it has made quite a few people upset. I especially enjoyed some of the more choice comments from the Weston A. Price Facebook Fan Page. So, I’m sharing my favorites with you.
“Just ignore them and get as many people hooked on real health as possible. Peaceful disobedience, choose freedom.”~Connor Tupper

Amen. So long as we act free, we ARE free, despite what any laws may say.

“Hospitals kill tens of thousands of people every year with drugs that are administered according to the manufacturer’s AND FDA recommendations. Hospitals should have to carry this label. More people were killed by shark attack last year than by raw milk. We should not be allowed to swim in the ocean. Automobiles are by far and away the most dangerous invention in the history of the world. Cars should be illegal.”~Jeremiah Griswold

Last I heard, the number killed by medicine was actually in the hundreds of thousands. It’s called the “iatrogenic death rate;” iatrogenesis being the inadvertent adverse affects caused by medical treatments (most commonly adverse drug reactions).
“Well I’ve been drinking raw milk for 40 years, go to work come home milk the goats, weed the garden, process my own food, clean the barn. I’m 60, and they think I’d be healthier if I switched to pastuerized from the store? The FDA has made some VERY unhealthy decisions. I don’t want their drugs or food.”~Zion Daughter

About the Author

Kristen Michaelis is a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD -- food that's sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. While she adores hats & happy skirts, nothing inspires her quite like geeking out over nutrition & sustainable agriculture. Nutrition educator & author of the go-to book on nutrition for fertility, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle of Caol Isla scotch, curling up with a page-turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and parenting her three children as they grow into young adults.

We need a poster with all the ACTUAL data-as in soy products have been the largest food recall in FDA history- and all the other jems of flawed science the fda is relying on!! *deep breaths, deeep breaths*

Wow, I can hardly read this stuff without getting depressed. What is our world coming to that we must turn on every single thing that is good for us. I’m very thankful that there are sites like yours and others doing their best to share the truth about real food!

You should really look into this! They are sending people to jail for selling the stuff, including fresh eggs. Why? Because the big biz guys might lose a buck!!! Or God forbid they lose two cents in tax. They should not be taxing food anyway!!! our government is getting way too big, and way too powerful!!!

This should be changed to “The FDA may pose a serious risk to your health.” I can’t believe how far they will go to spread this anti-real milk propaganda. Goodness, if raw milk was such a danger, how did our ancestors ever survive?

I am sure this is part of a very helpful series. . .anti-clean water, anti-home cooked food, anti-bedtime stories; you know, all those things as unwholesome and terrifying as raw milk from which we need an expensive bureaucracy to protect us!

I think the poster is VERY clear. Raw milk drinkers know who they are, and they don’t like being targeted by the FDA when the foods they eat should be THEIR choice. Why does the FDA want to ban the sale of unpasteurized milk, but is making no such claim for raw spinach? You’re right in that every food poses some amount of risk. I, however, believe that it is far riskier to drink pasteurized milk from cows raised in confinement dairies and fed a diet of corn, soy, and chicken manure (among other things) than it is to drink raw milk from grass-fed cows from a farmer I know and trust. Know your farmer! Know your food!

I would say it shows that “they” are aware of a growing trend and want to stamp it out ASAP. They’re not going to affect raw milk drinkers, I would think. Just the people who already think that way (or haven’t yet thought otherwise).

I definitely think that the FDA is concerned about the growing trend towards drinking raw milk. Yay for that trend growing! I don’t mind buying my milk with the warning label on it, after all I’m making an informed decision, but I would be PISSED if I could no longer pick up my raw cow or raw goat milk at my local store.

“If you think you might have become ill from drinking raw milk—or eating yogurt, cheese, or a product made from it—see your health care provider immediately”.

Clearly this is all about gathering information. They are trying to tie illness with raw milk and it’s associated products so they can ban it. They are having to fish for evedence because there’s so little…

Great post, the FDA is such a joke! Once again this only proves they are out to support who they make money off of and who gives them funding for false propaganda. What about cigarettes, how many thousands of people they have killed over the years! If they are SO concerned about people getting adverse reactions to food/products then when are they going to make cigarettes illegal??? From what I see people are waking up & opening their eyes to the crap out there that is labeled as “food” and I think this clearly says they are aware of that as well. They can’t make money unless they make products available that keep people sick!

So true, it is rediculous how much money and resources are being squandered on demonizing raw milk — what about deli meats which are ten times more likely to cause illness. Or what about this article I just read about how sanitary wipes are contaminated!

“Medical experts at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora said they became alarmed last fall when a few youngsters developed bloodstream infections caused by the rare bacteria Bacillus cereus. “

I just can’t wrap my head around this. If they think raw milk is unsafe, they shouldn’t drink it. But creating propaganda like this just shows that it’s not really about safety; it’s about control. Big food companies don’t make any money when you buy raw milk from your own community, so they need to stomp it out.

If the FDA says it’s good for me, I get very skeptical, If they say it is bad for me, I start to laugh. They have ZERO credibility as far as I am concerned. It would be nice if such a huge government agency meant something other than a load of crap. But it doesn’t.

The FDA certainly knows how to ‘milk’ our taxdollars. They can screw themselves. I am sticking to raw milk. I will not be guilty of collaboration with Big Dairy.

The best way to maintain your freedom of choice is to choose freely, and bedamned their laws. Come and get me. Yea, right. Plant your own, grow your own, buy from your local farmers, and the hell with the FDA/USDA. Hey, why don’t we all take a tax-exemption for the money they used to produce such trash?

“Raw Milk May Pose Health Risk” Okay, I guess I can live with that, since they actually say “may” and don’t say “will” or use some other stronger language. ALL foods “may” pose a risk. But then they reference the food pyramid. Any credibility they had – and with me, that would be none, but for the sake of argument let’s just say they had a little credibility – well, any credibility they has is gone after that reference!

We just need to keep educating people. Eventually, there will be too many of us for the FDA, USDA, and CDC to ignore. And we’ll all be healthy, to boot.

And in the mean time, I’m gonna keep drinking my milk the way I believe God intended me to drink it. You know – from a cow. That eats grass. And that’s it. :o)

Would you drink water straight from a mountain stream without boiling it first to kill harmful bacteria? If you wouldn’t, you’re posing an unnecessary risk to your health. Pasteurization is simply heating milk to a temperature that will kill bacteria that could make you – or worse – your children, very sick. Certain bacteria in raw milk can also cause miscarriages in pregnant women (Listeria Monocytogenes). The milk is just as wholesome after pasteurization, and it spoils less quickly because there aren’t as many lactic acid bacteria present. Homogenization is simply blending it up so you don’t have to shake it. It removes no nutrients from the milk.

Pasteurized and homogenized milk don’t have to come from cattle that have been given hormones, antibiotics, or food other than grass and hay. They aren’t related. Milk can be organic without being “raw”.

And if you are still not convinced, take the advise of one of my favorite food safety professors and “DON’T EAT POOP!” Farms are dirty, no matter what you do to keep them clean. Wash your fruits and vegetables, cook your animal products (YES! EVEN MILK).

I understand why you believe the way you do. I used to believe the same way. I had a lengthy reply but decided to just ask you to do more research. The FDA lies to us and state governments take away our basic right to decide what to eat. Our government allows us to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and ingest pharmaceuticals but tells us that raw milk is dangerous and outlaws the sale of it in some states. Something is very wrong here.

There’s a reason we started boiling milk, and it wasn’t just that we like watching bubbles.

Also, the hormones and antibiotics used may be unpleasant (ok, horrible?) for the cow, but the hormones are digested by us (into amino acids like any other protein) thereby making them ineffectual, and the antibiotics are regulated so consumption is low.

I drink a lot of evaporated milk, as I don’t mind the taste and it saves trips to the store. (enables laziness AND saves CO2!)

As organic raw milk sales rage vertically straight up every year, CA conventional pasteurized fluid milk consumption dropping at more than 2% per year and…..CA lost 105 conventional dairies in 2012 alone….2 or more dairies being closed every week. Pasteurized milk is being sold below cost….it is doomed!!!! All by itself. The truth is the truth. Dollar voting always points to the true north. Pasteurization intolerance is what it is!!!